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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 112 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAMEGO , a See also:

city of See also:northern See also:Portugal, in the See also:district of See also:Vizeu and formerly included in the See also:province of See also:Beira; 6 m. by road S. of the See also:river See also:Douro and 42 M. E. of See also:Oporto. Pop. (1900) ' The See also:text of Gen. iv. 22 is partly corrupt ; and it is possible that the text used by the See also:Septuagint did not contain See also:Cain. x Gen. x. 2, Ezek. See also:xxvii. 13. ' See also:Genesis, in See also:Haupt's Sacred Books of the Old Testament on iv. 19, cf. also the notes on 20-22, for See also:Lamech's See also:family. The See also:identification of Lamech with Lamga is also suggested by See also:Sayce, Expository Times, vii. 367.

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Cheyne, " Cainites " in Encyc. Biblica. Notes on the See also:Hebrew Text of Genesis, in loco.9471. The nearest railway station is Peso da Regoa, on the opposite See also:side of the Douro and on the See also:Barca d'See also:Alva-Oporto railway. Lamego is an See also:ancient and picturesque city, in the midst of a beautiful See also:mountain region. Its See also:principal buildings are the 14th-See also:century See also:Gothic See also:cathedral, Moorish citadel, See also:Roman See also:baths and a See also:church which occupies the site of a See also:mosque, and, though intrinsically See also:commonplace, is celebrated in Portugal as the seat of the legendary See also:cortes of 1143 or 1144 (see PORTUGAL, See also:History). The principal See also:industries are viticulture and the rearing of See also:swine, which furnish the so-called " See also:Lisbon hams." Lamego was a Moorish frontier fortress of some importance in the 9th and loth centuries. It was captured in 1057 by See also:Ferdinand I. of See also:Castile and See also:Leon.

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